DBMS > Cubrid vs. jBASE vs. Kingbase vs. Prometheus vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. jBASE vs. Kingbase vs. Prometheus vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.kingbase.com.cn

prometheus.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

prometheus.io/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2008

1991

1999

2015

Current release

11.0, January 2021

5.7

V8.0, August 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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